Geneva – U.N.’s Top Human Rights Official: Israel, Hamas Committing War Crimes

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    UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navi Pillay, answers journalist's questions about the human rights situation in the world, during a press conference at the Geneva Press Club, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)Geneva – The U.N.’s top human rights official is accusing Israel and Hamas militants of committing war crimes in the latest Gaza war.

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    U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says that by placing and firing rockets within heavily populated areas both sides are committing “a violation of international humanitarian law, therefore a war crime.”

    Pillay also told reporters Thursday in Geneva that she sees “a recurrence of the very acts” from the 2009 Gaza war in which the U.N. concluded Israel deliberately targeted civilians and might have committed war crimes, along with Hamas.

    Around 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 59 Israelis, mainly soldiers, have been killed in the latest violence.


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    Isaac1
    Isaac1
    9 years ago

    Reuters? No kidding! UN? Get outta here! Will the wonders ever cease? Message to this contemptible bigot: some faces are best kept away from cameras. Yours is one of them.

    Eagle
    Eagle
    9 years ago

    let me guess, she is muslim, right? yeah ok.

    Boochie
    Boochie
    9 years ago

    Someone please tell this dog, that she should come out of her she’ll and simply say “I hate Jews”, she doesn’t care about human rights, if so there would be many more complaints against Iraq, Iran, Syria, SA…… , and most other African and Asian nations

    Fact is Israel is picked on every single day in the UN, it’s a joke already, all the money comes from US if the US stopped funding it there wouldn’t be a UN, why do we allow dogs like this to control the conversation?

    maxedout
    maxedout
    9 years ago

    cant someone shut this machsheifa up?

    Lower_East_Sider
    Lower_East_Sider
    9 years ago

    “Navi Pillay says that by placing and firing rockets within heavily populated areas both sides are committing “a violation of international humanitarian law, therefore a war crime.””

    At least now the Palestinians are also guilty.

    9 years ago

    I have minimal problem with this seemingly even-handed statement (though I believe it is untrue). But the statement that says that Israel was “deliberately” targeting civilians is a verbal assault on Israel. It is blatantly false, this machsheifoh knows it, and is simply repeating the Hamas agenda to destroy Israel in the court of public opinion. There is no limit to the bizayon that she deserves for saying this.

    9 years ago

    IS THIS NOT A “CRIME”
    Booby-Trapped Explosives Built into Walls of UNRWA Clinic
    Over 80 kilogram of explosive material built into rigged UN-funded clinic; no response from UNRWA.

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    She loos stupid, she talks s

    Benny
    Benny
    9 years ago

    She looks stupid, she thinks stupid, she talks stupid,
    I guess she is stupid.